Spatiotemporal relationships between climate and whitebark pine mortality in the greater yellowstone ecosystem

Forest Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-335

  Jewett, Jeffrey T ^a   Lawrence, Rick L ^a   Marshall, Lucy A ^a   Gessler, Paul E ^a   Powell, Scott L ^b   Savage, Shannon L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Enhanced wetness difference index; Grizzly bears; Landsat; Mountain pine beetle; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED WETNESS DIFFERENCE INDICES; GRIZZLY BEAR; LANDSAT; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; REGRESSION TREES;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSECTS; PINUS MUGO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCK; SATELLITES;

EID: 84858606989     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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